[lbackup-discussion] Backup Error Emails

[Michael Williams]

Hello All,

A couple of things that hopefully someone can shed some light on;

1.	Backup Emails Are Blocked

I have been testing LBackup on a Mac OS X Server and I now have it  
working satisfactorily but have one problem. When the backup fails and  
emails the log to me, my webhosting company blocks it. I have started  
an investigation at their end, but through the same mail server (using  
a mail client) I can send emails to myself and they get there in  
record time. I have even tried sending an email out using a mail  
client that uses the same address as the backup program, and that  
works fine.
I have also tried sending the log email to an email address hosted  
internally (a server that I manage for the client) and that works  
fine. I have even tried bouncing the email off our email server  
(sending it to a local email account and then having all emails for  
that account forwarded to me) but that didn't work.

Any ideas?

2. 	The Sending Email Address Won't Change

In the Mail configuration file that I setup to send the backup logs  
upon the failure of the backup, everything works fine, apart from the  
sending address. Although I have changed it, it is still sending  
emails out as lucid at lucidsystems.org. My assumption is that there is a  
bug in the code somewhere, where someone has accidentally hard coded  
the email address into the code instead of looking to the config file.  
Has anyone else had this problem? Does anyone know the solution? It's  
not a major problem, and I'm not about to go groping round in the  
source code to try and fix it myself, but if there is a fix that would  
be marvellous and may help with the above problem.


On another note, I would be keen to have the option of having LBackup  
emailing the logs for the backup on both successful and failed  
backups. This way I could tell by the absence of any email that the  
server didn't bother to backup. It would also be handy to have the  
subject of the email read "Successful" or "Failure" so that it was  
obvious whether further investigation was required. Another great  
little feature would be to know how much space the backup destination  
had free upon the completion of the backup, so that you could see if  
the backup was starting to run full or not.  Just a thought.

Thanks for the help,

Michael
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